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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect enables you to create a desktop shortcut (or </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Proxy</span><span class="f_BodyText"> file) to your model or (for a .EAP file) a direct copy of your model (you cannot create a copy of a DBMS model).</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If you are using a database repository other than MS Access 97, 2000 or 2003, you can configure the shortcut to <a href="encrypt_repository_password.htm">encrypt the password</a> used to set up the connection between Enterprise Architect and the repository. The Enterprise Architect user does not have the real password, thereby preventing them from accessing the repository using other tools such as Query Analyzer or SQLPlus.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Each shortcut is a </span><span class="f_BodyText">file containing the connection string for the model. However, the shortcut also defines </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">views</span><span class="f_BodyText"> that Enterprise Architect should open as it opens the model, such as:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The <a href="search_view.htm">Model Search</a> with a specific text string and search type</span></li>
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<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">For searches operating on the current tree selection, a diagram in the target package must be opened first.</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> </span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">If you use a custom SQL search, the <a href="creating_filters.htm">SQL must include</a> </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">ea_guid AS CLASSGUID </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">and the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">object type.</span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">A specific diagram</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="elementrelationshipmatrix.htm">Relationship Matrix</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> with a saved profile</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The default <a href="discussionforum.htm">Discussion Forum</a>.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can define more than one diagram to open (but not more than one search,</span><span class="f_UIControl"> Discussion Forum</span><span class="f_BodyText"> or </span><span class="f_UIControl">Relationship Matrix</span><span class="f_BodyText"> profile). Enterprise Architect opens the appropriate windows in the sequence in which you list the options, displaying the last view in the list. For example, you might create your shortcut to open, in sequence:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">A Development module</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Model Search</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> for a </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">simple</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> search on the term </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Issue</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The module Issues diagram</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The module Changes diagram.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The project would then open with the Enterprise Architect work area showing the two diagram tabs and the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Model Search</span><span class="f_BodyText"> tab, and with the Changes diagram displayed in the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="diagramview.htm">Diagram View</a></span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">These options are not valid for a copy of the model.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">If specified, the shortcut views override any <a href="diagrammenu.htm">default diagram</a> defined for the model or current user.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">A shortcut does not affect the original Enterprise Architect .exe file or icon, or any other shortcut you might have defined. You can use all of these independently.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">When you use a shortcut to access a project that you have recently opened in Enterprise Architect, the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Recent</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> list on the Enterprise Architect </span><span class="f_UIControl">Start Page</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> has two entries for the project - one created when you opened the project in Enterprise Architect and one created when you used the desktop shortcut.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To create a copy of your model or a shortcut to your model, you have two options:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="create_copy_or_shortcut.htm">Define each view</a> to open (for example, if you are specifying a working environment in advance, perhaps for other users)</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="capture_current_work_environme.htm">Capture the current Enterprise Architect work environment</a> to access the model at exactly the same point in exactly the same environment when you resume work.</span></li>
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